Job Title: Psychologist –Team Leader (m/f/d)
Working hours: Full time (9:00 – 17:00 from Monday to Friday)
Workplace: Psychosocial Support Centre for Refugees (PSCR)
Location: Athens
Submit until: 21/06/2024
Program’s purpose:
EPAPSY, in partnership with UNHCR, implements the Community Psychosocial Workforce (CPW) project in the urban area of Attica, with the aim to facilitate the provision of psychosocial support integrated services to refugees and asylum seekers offered by refugees and asylum seekers. The objective of the project is to develop competency-based skills of refugees/ asylum seekers enabling them to take on paraprofessional roles of Community Psychosocial Workers within the refugee communities.
Responsibilities:
- Guidance, supervision, and capacity building of a team of ten Community Psychosocial Workers (CPWs)
- Availability to assist CPWs and answer their questions during the day
- Focal point concerning the choice, delegation, and monitoring of referrals to the CPW project
- Participation in the selection and training of new team members
- Close collaboration with the Project Manager, the Administrative Assistant, and the Clinical Supervisor
- Preparation of the team concerning its daily/weekly/monthly activities
- Participation in the weekly team meetings and the monthly staff meetings
- Contribute to reporting, including preparing monthly operational reports
- Participation in necessary trainings organized by EPAPSY, UNHCR, or another partner
- Preparation, coordination, and implementation of information sessions with other actors
- Connection of the CPWs with internal and external partners
- Organization of outreach activities
- The role reports to the Project Manager
Required qualifications and skills:
Profile
- University degree in Psychology
- Work permit as a psychologist
- A Master’s degree on a relevant topic will be considered an asset (especially Counselling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, or Community Psychology)
- Training in psychotherapy (especially in CBT) is highly valued.
- Training in Problem Management Plus (PM+) is an asset.
- Training in and experience with clinical supervision is highly valued.
Experience
- Clinical work is necessary.
- Two years of previous working experience in the humanitarian sector with refugees and asylum seekers is necessary.
- Previous experience within the field of refugee mental health is an asset.
- Previous working experience of coordinating teams is highly valued.
Required Professional skills
- Empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard
- Ability to work and coordinate a multicultural team
- Excellent communicational and organizational skills
- Very good knowledge of the refugee context and current situation in Greece
- General knowledge of the NGO world, and particularly of available mental health care and social services in Attica
- High professional ethics and integrity
Language
- Fluency in Greek (desirable)
- Excellent verbal and written English skills (essential)
- An addition language will be considered as an asset.
Computer skills
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
Interested candidates shall submit their Resume/CV and Cover Letter in English by email to: refugeementalhealth@epapsy.gr by 21/06/2024, mentioning in the email subject “CPW Team Leader”.
